Saturday, September 20, 2008

Fashionable lips

Phew -- a busy first week of teaching a new semester (and still two days to go before a day off to collect myself!). Tiring but very, very fun.

Today's class is a fashion illustration course for teens; we're starting with the face and features, so one of the exercises is filling a page with lips copied from magazine pages (example above). This gives students a chance to practice using colored pencils and markers, as well as learn the basic shape of lips. (We also do a page of eyes.) I've found it helps to give them a good grounding in drawing believable heads and faces; without that, the fashion figures they draw wearing their designs look less real.

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Catherine Carter is an artist whose canvases focus on line and its connection to natural forms and calligraphic marks. Her paintings are held in public and corporate collections including the Boston Public Library, Berkshire Partners, and Massasoit Community College, and have been on display at the United States Embassies in Oman and Cameroon as part of the Art In Embassies Program. The recipient of a grant from the St. Botolph Club Fountain, she currently maintains her studio in New Bedford, Massachusetts.